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Is hunger back - or did it never go away?http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2009/jul/27/hunger-food-biofuel-banking-crisis
If the news that for the first time more than a billion people are classified as chronically hungry doesn't completely kill your appetite for eating out, there is a way to assuage the guilt<p>As the invitations for the autumn celebrity cook book launches pile up - the latest is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamasin_Day-Lewis">Tamasin Day-Lewis</a>'s Supper for a Song - you realise that the publishing world has cottoned onto the fact that people are finding it tougher to feed themselves in their usual manner. Clever! &quot;In tough times we still always crave good food, even if we have to cut down (or give up) eating out ... &quot; runs the blurb for Tamasin (sister of Daniel).</p><p>I can't help wondering about the people who are having to give up eating entirely. Any top tips for them? Their numbers are up more sharply than those of British shoppers forced by the recession to slum it at Lidl. For the first time over a billion people, <a href="http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/jun2009/hung-j20.shtml">according to the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation</a>, are chronically hungry. Nearly half of them are children.<br /><br />Climate change and the renewed rise in the price of staple food commodities now ensure that more people than ever before in history are going to bed hungry. There's a good <a href="http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13944900">analysis in the Economist</a> of what is happening, and what the future holds. Part of the problem, of course, is that we're still turning poor people's cereals into ethanol for our green cars. <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/jul/20/food.cambodia">Here's me banging on</a> about the effect of this in Cambodia for OFM last year.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2009/jul/27/hunger-food-biofuel-banking-crisis">Continue reading...</a>Life and styleFood & drinkFoodEnergyBiofuelsGlobal recessionBusinessMon, 27 Jul 2009 08:40:00 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2009/jul/27/hunger-food-biofuel-banking-crisisDarren Staples/ReutersIncreasing amounts of crops are being turned into biofuel rather than food.Darren Staples/ReutersA tree stands in a field of oilseed rape crop in Warwickshire.Alex Renton2009-07-27T08:40:00Z